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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">The Internet Society is inviting applications for its Fellowship to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). T</span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">he
Fellowship programme allows technologists, engineers and researchers from emerging and developing economies to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">As you know, the IETF is the Internet's premier standards-making body, responsible for the development of protocols used in IP-based networks. IETF participants
represent an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process. The Internet Society is currently accepting applications for the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">* IETF 98, March 26-31, 2017, Chicago, United States</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Information about the programme and links to apply can be found at: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1HaKPt5"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#428BCA;text-decoration:none">http://bit.ly/1HaKPt5</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">Applications will close on 4 December, 2016 and successful candidates will be notified on 16 December, 2016.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:red">I encourage you to apply for this opportunity or pass this information about the programme to individuals in your network that have a keen interest in the open standards development activities of
the IETF.</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333">If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Niel Harper at <a href="mailto:harper@isoc.org"><span class="s4"><span style="color:#428BCA;text-decoration:none">harper@isoc.org</span></span></a>.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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